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underpants

(182,837 posts)
Thu Jan 10, 2019, 07:14 PM Jan 2019

Fact-check: Did top Democrats vote for a border wall in 2006?

You can read the article at link. Since I can only post 4 paragraphs please read the link.
I've been hearing this for a while on talk radio so I finally got around to check it out.

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/apr/23/mick-mulvaney/fact-check-did-top-democrats-vote-border-wall-2006/

The Secure Fence Act of 2006

Our ruling

Mulvaney said that Obama, Schumer and Clinton voted for a border wall in 2006.

They did vote for the Secure Fence Act of 2006, which authorized building a fence along about 700 miles of the border between the United States and Mexico.

Still, the fence they voted for is not as substantial as the wall Trump is proposing. Trump himself called the 2006 fence a "nothing wall."

Mulvaney’s statement is partially accurate, but ignores important context. We rate it Half True.

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Fact-check: Did top Democrats vote for a border wall in 2006? (Original Post) underpants Jan 2019 OP
1/2 true is incredible for the GOP. guillaumeb Jan 2019 #1
LOL underpants Jan 2019 #3
80 Senators voted for it karynnj Jan 2019 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author elocs Jan 2019 #4
Well... underpants Jan 2019 #5

karynnj

(59,504 posts)
2. 80 Senators voted for it
Thu Jan 10, 2019, 07:23 PM
Jan 2019

Many of the most liberal voted against it including Feingold, Jeffords and Leahy (both VT), John Kerry (Ted Kennedy did not vote), Lautenberg and Menendez (both NJ), Cantwell and Murray(both WA), Akaka and Inouye(both HI) etc

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/109-2006/s262

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