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Scott Brown gets his swearing-in timeline wrong

By Katie Sanders
November 13, 2013

Former Massachusetts Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown took a stroll down memory lane Monday while talking about the health care law with Fox News’ Gretchen Carlson.

Brown, who is now a Fox News contributor, claimed the architects of Obamacare delayed Brown’s swearing-in in 2010 to help “ram” the law through Congress.

“They rammed it through before I got there, knowing I would be there in a week or two,” Brown said on The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson. “They delayed my swearing-in here in Massachusetts for a couple weeks so they could ram it through and did not pass one amendment to make it better for the American people, and they should be held accountable.”

As Brown finished his point about his swearing-in, people watching could hear Carlson say, “I remember.”

But did she remember right?

No. Read why here.

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