Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell spent $43,584 on taxpayer-funded trips last year, more than twice what the office has spent since at least 2006.

Trade missions to India, China, Israel and Paris during 2011 made up nearly $37,000 of those expenses, according to analysis of McDonnell’s financial disclosure report by the Virginia Public Access Project, a nonpartisan watchdog of political spending.

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