Claim: Says Sen. Thad Cochran "voted to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on ... the Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska instead of shifting the money to repair a bridge damaged by Hurricane Katrina."
Fact-check: Did Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran spurn Katrina bridge-repair project to back 'Bridge to Nowhere'?
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2014-03-27T00:00:00