Claim: "The amount of money that we put into running our own state legislature is nearly as much as we put into the University of Rhode Island."
Fact-check: Rhode Island Sen. Dawson Hodgson says the state spends nearly as much on its legislature as it does on University of Rhode Island
Verdict: false
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Michael Mckinney
Date published: 2013-01-13T00:00:00