Wed
Sep 19 2018
07:25 am
By: WhitesCreek
Democratic Senate candidate Phil Bredesen's claim that Republican rival Marsha Blackburn passed legislation "at the behest of the pharmaceutical industry" to weaken the DEA opioid enforcement has been rated "mostly true" by Politifact.
Links over on the right. I hope you folks check those things.
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