U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin apparently feels a little heat from his vote to end Medicare and cut millionaires’ taxes.

He’s gone to rewriting history (aka lying) on his Twitter feed.

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Griffin distributed this Twitter message this morning:

Did you know that the House Budget Medicare reform was first recommended by Bill Clinton’s bipartisan Medicare Commission in 1999?

Read on for a full summary of what actually happened. Griffin’s effort to wrap his Medicare-wrecking vote in Bill Clinton armor is wholly dishonest. The passage below is from the Policy Almanac.

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