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Planned Parenthood
stated on October 10, 2012 in in a mailer:

Says Mitt Romney and George Allen "would overturn Roe v. Wade and allow states to end safe, legal abortion even in cases of rape, incest or when a woman's life is at risk."

By Becky Bowers • October 19, 2012
Tim Kaine
stated on September 24, 2012 in a news release.:

"The tax burden on Virginia families was lower under Tim Kaine than under George Allen."

By Nancy Madsen • October 15, 2012
Tim Kaine
stated on September 12, 2012 in a news release.:

George Allen "voted to end Pell Grants for 84,000 students."

By Sean Gorman • October 1, 2012
Tim Kaine
stated on July 21, 2012 in a debate.:

Says former Sen. George Allen voted four times to raise his own pay.

By Sean Gorman • July 29, 2012
Tim Kaine
stated on December 7, 2011 in in a debate:

George Allen and his colleagues in the Senate "turned the biggest surplus in the history of the United States into the biggest deficit in the history of the United States."

By Sean Gorman • May 15, 2012
Jamie Radtke
stated on March 28, 2012 in a web video:

George Allen "voted for 40,000 earmarks."

By Nancy Madsen • April 18, 2012
Tim Kaine
stated on December 7, 2011 in a debate.:

George Allen cast "the deciding vote" for the 2003 Bush tax cuts.

By Sean Gorman • December 17, 2011
Tim Kaine
stated on October 31, 2011 in a news release.:

George Allen's flat tax "plan would actually shrink revenues further than the Perry (flat tax) plan."

By Sean Gorman • November 14, 2011
Jamie Radtke
stated on May 4, 2011 in a TV interview.:

George Allen "had 40,000 earmarks" while he was a senator.

By Sean Gorman • May 13, 2011
Jamie Radtke
stated on April 12, 2011 in a blog post.:

George Allen voted to add $3 trillion to the federal debt, voted to raise the debt ceiling four times and voted for the No Child Left Behind Act while he was a senator.

By Jacob Geiger • April 15, 2011
Jamie Radtke
stated on January 17, 2011 in a news release:

George Allen voted for budgets that increased the national debt by $16,400 for every second he served in the U.S. Senate.

By Warren Fiske • January 23, 2011