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Statements about Military
Jack Reed

Jack Reed

True

Lots of boots on the ground

North Korea has a "substantial standing army, one of the largest, certainly the largest per capita, in the world."

Providence City Council

Providence City Council

False

Factual mis-fire

"Semi-automatic weapons, whether pistol or rifle, were designed for use by the military on the battlefield."

Facebook posts

Facebook posts

Pants on Fire!

Gun claim is a Swiss miss

"Switzerland (where the government) issues every household a gun . . . has the lowest gun related crime rate of any civilized country in the world!!!"

David Cicilline

David Cicilline

False

Infrastructure only small part of overall spending

"We will spend $100 billion in Afghanistan this year, fixing roads, building bridges, training police officers, and more, [and] cutting the same things in our own country."

Anthony Gemma

Anthony Gemma

Pants on Fire!

Claim goes AWOL

U.S. military uniforms are manufactured in China.

Sheldon Whitehouse

Sheldon Whitehouse

True

Answering the call time and again.

Rhode Island has the "the second-most heavily deployed National Guard in the United States."

Mark S. Zaccaria

Mark S. Zaccaria

Mostly False

This claim doesn't fly

Says James Langevin voted to spend "$3 billion for a jet engine no one wants."

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