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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."
Mulvaneys statement is partially accurate, but ignores important context. We rate it Half True.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)It might be a record.
underpants
(182,837 posts)karynnj
(59,504 posts)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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