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Latest Fact-Checks On Tim Kaine

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Tim Kaine
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."
Mostly False
By Nancy Madsen • October 15, 2012
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on September 12, 2012 in a news release.:
George Allen "voted to end Pell Grants for 84,000 students."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • October 1, 2012
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on July 21, 2012 in a debate.:
Says former Sen. George Allen voted four times to raise his own pay.
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • July 30, 2012
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on July 21, 2012 in a debate.:
"I ended up my time as governor with a general fund budget that was smaller than the one I started with."
True
By Nancy Madsen • July 27, 2012
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on June 6, 2012 in a fundraising letter.:
Virginia women earn "only 79 cents to each dollar earned by men..."
Mostly True
By Nancy Madsen • June 15, 2012
Tim Kaine
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."
Half-True
By Sean Gorman • May 15, 2012
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on April 4, 2012 in a policy paper.:
Says when he was governor, "we expanded participation in Virginia in early childhood programs by nearly 40 percent."
True
By Nancy Madsen • May 11, 2012
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on December 7, 2011 in a debate.:
George Allen cast "the deciding vote" for the 2003 Bush tax cuts.
False
By Sean Gorman • December 17, 2011
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on December 7, 2011 in a debate.:
The national debt increased $16,000 every second George Allen served in the U.S. Senate.
True
By Warren Fiske • December 8, 2011
Tim Kaine
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."
False
By Sean Gorman • November 15, 2011
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on May 18, 2011 in an interview.:
On whether judges should be allowed to place children with gay couples who wish to adopt.
Half Flip
By Jacob Geiger • May 27, 2011
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on April 21, 2011 in a TV interview.:
Virginia ranked near the bottom of the nation 50 years ago in per capita income but is in the top 10 today. It had a "very low" rate of higher education attainment but is now above the national average.
Half-True
By Sean Gorman • May 12, 2011
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on April 5, 2011 in a YouTube video:
Virginia was named "best managed state, best state for business and best state to raise a child" while I was governor. 
True
By Jacob Geiger • April 7, 2011
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on January 18, 2011 in a TV interview:
On running for Senate if Jim Webb retires.
Half Flip
By Jacob Geiger • April 5, 2011
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on February 19, 2011 in a speech at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner.:
"We’ve now gained private sector jobs 12 months in a row."
Mostly True
By Jacob Geiger • March 2, 2011
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on February 19, 2011 in a speech at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner.:
Under former President George W. Bush’s administration "while the population in that period grew by 10 percent, the number of jobs in the nation grew by 1 percent."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • February 26, 2011
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on January 2, 2011 in a TV interview.:
Obama’s mid-term approval ratings are similar to other presidents who went on to re-election.  
Half-True
By Warren Fiske • January 10, 2011
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on September 19, 2010 in a TV interview.:
Republican plan to extend Bush tax cuts "would double deficit projections going forward for the next couple of decades."
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • November 11, 2010
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on October 24, 2010 in an interview on "This Week.":
When Obama took office "the economy of the United States was actually shrinking for the first time in about 70 years."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 5, 2010
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on August 15, 2010 in a segment of CBS' ''Face The Nation.'':
Republicans tried to block the deficit commission.
Half-True
By Lukas Pleva • August 18, 2010
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