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From George Santos to Joe Biden. résumé padding is unacceptable. But it's all the lies about legislation we can't afford

Newly elected New York congressman George Santos has "apologized" after getting caught lying about where he went to high school and whether he graduated from college. And where he worked after not graduating from college. And whether he is Brazilian. And Jewish. And whether his grandparents actually fled the Holocaust. And whether his mother died on 9/11.

Santos-who says he won't resign-is an extreme case. but résumé padding is nothing new in Washington. Who can forget Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren's fraudulent-and ultimately apologized-for- claims of Native-American heritage? She apparently even plagiarized the "Cherokee recipes" she contributed to a 1984 cookbook called Pow Wow Chow.

There are folks like Sen. Dick Blumenthal (D.-Conn.), who lied about serving in Vietnam during a tight race but then claimed he didn't really do anything wrong because he only misspoke on multiple occasions and not all the time.