Cruz, Obama vying with others for Lie of the Year
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A claim by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is among 10 nominees for PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year, annually bestowed by editors and writers for PolitiFact in Washington, D.C.
Cruz, a Republican, said in August that President Barack Obama "just granted all of Congress an exception" to Obamacare. That’s False.
Two statements by Obama also have been nominated.
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Our Sources
Story, "The 2013 Lie of the Year Finalists: Vote in the Readers' Poll," PolitiFact, Dec. 2, 2013