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Latest Fact-Checks On Marco Rubio

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Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 26, 2016 a column posted on Medium.com
"Two-thirds of our kids can’t read at grade level."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 18, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 14, 2016 comments on "Meet the Press"
"There comes a point in the last year of the president, especially in their second term, where you stop nominating" both Supreme Court justices and Court of Appeals judges.
False
By Linda Qiu • February 14, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 13, 2016 a debate in Greenville, S.C.
"It has been over 80 years since a lame-duck president appointed a Supreme Court justice."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • February 14, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 6, 2016 the GOP primary debate in New Hampshire
Says Hillary Clinton "believes that all abortions should be legal, even on the due date of that unborn child."
False
By Linda Qiu • February 10, 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."
Mostly True
By Jonathan Van Fleet • February 7, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 6, 2016 an ABC Republican debate in New Hampshire
"The American people will not support doing anything about people that are in this country illegally until the law is enforced first."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • February 7, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 4, 2016 a town hall in Manchester, N.H.
China is "practicing how to blow up our satellites."
True
By Louis Jacobson • February 5, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 31, 2016 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"We have more illegal immigrants here" than we did five years ago.
False
By Lauren Carroll • January 31, 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."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • January 29, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 28, 2016 a Republican debate in Iowa on Fox News
On opposing citizenship for illegal immigrants
Half Flip
By Amy Sherman • 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."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 26, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 18, 2016 an exchange with voters at an Iowa campaign event
Says his much-discussed boots are "made in Wisconsin."
Pants on Fire!
By Joshua Gillin • January 19, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 17, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"
Hostages were released as soon as Ronald Reagan took office because Iran perceived that America was "no longer under the command of someone weak."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • January 17, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 14, 2016 a Republican presidential debate in North Charleston, S.C.
Says Sen. Ted Cruz used to be "in favor of birthright citizenship" but is now against it.
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • January 15, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 13, 2015 an interview on Meet the Press
The only budget Ted Cruz "ever voted for in his time in the Senate is a budget that cut defense spending by more than Barack Obama proposes we cut it."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • December 22, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 15, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas
Regarding the USA Freedom Act, "There is nothing we are allowed to do under this bill that we could not do before."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • December 16, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 15, 2015 the CNN debate in Las Vegas
Says Ted Cruz supports "legalizing people who are in this country illegally."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, W. Gardner Selby • December 16, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 13, 2015 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"The states have always defined marriage."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • December 13, 2015
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."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 13, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 1, 2015 a tweet
"Last year, I stopped an Obamacare bailout and saved taxpayers $2.5 billion."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • December 7, 2015
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