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Latest Fact-Checks On Marco Rubio

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Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on November 8, 2018 a tweet
"#Broward elections department has a history of violating the law."
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By Amy Sherman • November 12, 2018
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 15, 2017 an interview with Channel 8
"The child tax credit, if we don't do it, there will be no tax relief for working families. How much tax relief working families get under tax reform is entirely dependent on whether or not we put in place an increase to the child tax credit."  
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By Allison Graves • October 19, 2017
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 27, 2017 an interview
"In Florida, 70 percent of the people here illegally came on an airplane. They overstayed a visa."
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By Amy Sherman • February 2, 2017
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on September 13, 2016 a TV ad
Says Patrick "Murphy embellished, according to reports, his University of Miami academic achievement."
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By Amy Sherman • September 15, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on August 12, 2016 a campaign ad
Says "Marco Rubio wrote and passed bipartisan legislation allowing the VA to fire negligent workers."
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By Allison Graves • August 17, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on June 13, 2016 an interview with Hugh Hewitt
"In America, radical speech is not a crime."  
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By Amy Sherman • June 15, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on May 16, 2016 a tweet
Says he never told anyone he hated the U.S. Senate.
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By Joshua Gillin • June 3, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 2, 2016 an interview in Bow, N.H.
"Ted Cruz defended a Chinese company that stole an invention from an American inventor."
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By Jonathan Van Fleet • February 7, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 28, 2016 a Republican debate in Iowa on Fox News
"I have never supported cap and trade."
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By Joshua Gillin • January 29, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 14, 2016 Republican presidential debate in North Charleston, S.C.
Under Ted Cruz’s tax plan, "businesses will now have to pay 16 percent on the money they make. They will also have to pay 16 percent on the money they pay their employees."
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By W. Gardner Selby • January 26, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 13, 2015 an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press"
"Three or four countries" out of roughly 60 in the anti-ISIS coalition "are providing military force."
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By Louis Jacobson • December 13, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on September 20, 2015 an interview on "This Week."
"We had a three-hour debate, no discussion about the national debt, very little about the economy."
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By Joshua Gillin • September 20, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on August 18, 2015 a speech at the Iowa State Fair
"We have an Army that just cut 40,000 spots."  
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By Amy Sherman • August 20, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on August 6, 2015 comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland
Says that Donald Trump "supported Charlie Crist."  
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By Amy Sherman • August 7, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on August 6, 2015 comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland
"This is the most generous country in the world when it comes to immigration. There are a million people a year who legally immigrate to the United States."  
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By Amy Sherman • August 7, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 22, 2015 an appearance on 'Fox & Friends'
"Forty percent of people in this country, illegally, are overstaying visas."
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By Joshua Gillin • July 29, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on May 1, 2015 the National Review Forum
"We have a legal immigration system in America that accepts 1 million people a year, legally. No other country in the world even comes close to that."
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By Amy Sherman • May 13, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on March 24, 2015 a Senate floor speech
"Inflation-adjusted defense spending has declined 21 percent since 2010, and even if we discount the drawdowns in Iraq and Afghanistan, it has still declined by a dangerous 12 percent."
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By Joshua Gillin • March 30, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 12, 2015 a book
Administrative employees at colleges and universities have "more than doubled over the last 25 years, outpacing the growth of students by more than 2 to 1."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 12, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 17, 2014
"The reason why Cubans don't have access to 21st century telecommunications — like smart phones, like access to the Internet — is because it is illegal in Cuba."
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By Lauren Carroll, Steve Contorno • December 19, 2014
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