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Quotes Beto O’Rourke as saying, "If I could throw two kinds of people in the garbage it would be the elderly and wounded veterans. When a tool breaks you don’t fix it, you throw it in the damn trash."

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Thursday, February 14th, 2019

Mostly False

Let's be blunt; no evidence of censorship

Baldwin

Says VA doctors are "censored from being able to talk to their patients" about marijuana, even in states where it is legal for medicinal use

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, November 9th, 2018

Mostly True

Bipartisan, yes, but action was tardy

Baldwin

Says that after the overdose death of a Tomah VA veteran, she "brought both parties together to help pass a law" to "make the VA accountable and also to stop the overprescribing of" opioids.

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, November 2nd, 2018

Mostly False

Not dismissive

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee

Says that U.S. Rep. Andy Barr was "even dismissing the importance of military service" by saying, "We both served our country. I’ve served in a position where ideas matter."

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, October 24th, 2018

False

Not even in top five

Manchin

West Virginia has "more veterans per capita" than any state.

— PolitiFact West Virginia on Thursday, October 11th, 2018