Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine, who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee, released the following statement regarding the Naming Commission’s recommendations to rename three Virginia bases that were previously named after Confederates. Kaine co-sponsored an amendment in the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act that initiated the process to rename these bases and all other DOD facilities named after Confederates. “If we as a count...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) issued the following statements after the Department of Labor’s announcement of $3.4 million in funding grants to boost women’s participation in registered apprenticeship programs.  “Apprenticeships are key to ensuring workers can gain the valuable skills and training they need, but far too many women still lack access to these critical opportunities,” said Klobuchar. “These ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), and Thom Tillis (R-NC), as well as a bipartisan group of senators, sent a letter to President Biden urging him to expedite the Executive Branch’s process to advance Sweden and Finland’s applications for NATO membership and pledging to work with the Administration to ensure swift ratification of the Washington Treaty. In the letter, the Senators noted that NATO’s expansion will send a clear message t...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. —Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine led U.S. Senator Mark R. Warner (both D-VA) and U.S. Representatives Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-7), Donald McEachin (D-VA-4), Bobby Scott (D-VA-3), Elaine Luria (D-VA-2), and Robert Wittman (R-VA-1) in pushing U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to direct federal infrastructure dollars to Virginia to ease congestion on I-64 between Richmond and Hampton Roads. Kaine also led Warner, Spanberger, McEachin, Luria, Wittman, an...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine, a member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, applauded unanimous Senate passage of the Access to Baby Formula Act, which will help improve access to baby formula for families who participate in the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program. The legislation passed the House of Representatives yesterday and now heads to President Biden’s desk to be signed into law. “No one should have to wo...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-NJ) was joined today by Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Roger Wicker (R-MS), and Ben Cardin (D-MD) in introducing the Upholding the Inter-American Democratic Charter Act of 2022. Unveiled in advance of the Ninth Summit of the Americas—scheduled to take place in Los Angeles next month—the new bipartisan legislation proposes a series of initiatives to strengthen the United States’ cooper...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Tim Kaine, who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees, issued the following statement after voting to pass a $40 billion military and humanitarian aid package for Ukraine: “Putin’s illegal war in Ukraine underscores the importance of democracies around the world sticking together to stand against authoritarians who violate international law an...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine released the following statement ahead of the Senate’s vote on the Small Business COVID Relief Act, legislation to provide restaurants, music venues, and other small businesses with much-needed support: “These past two years have been difficult on all of us, and have posed unique challenges to Virginia small businesses—from restaurants and concert venues, to gyms and Main Street stores—putting jobs and essential servi...Continue Reading

Kaine, Murray, Casey, and 29 Democratic colleagues call on President Biden to appoint a White House coordinator on infant formula and develop a national strategy to address shortages WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined HELP Chair Patty Murray, Senator Bob Casey, and 29 of his Democratic colleagues in urging President Joe Biden to immediately assign a White House coordinator on infant formula to address t...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Tim Kaine, Bob Menendez, and Ben Ray Luján, alongside U.S. Representative Tony Cárdenas and a bicameral group of their colleagues, sent letters to WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal to express serious concerns about the rise of Spanish-language misinformation and disinformation targeted at Latino communities on these group messaging applications. The lawmakers also posed specific questions about what steps, if any, these companies are taking to preven...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, who serves on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, released the following video statement today regarding new steps being taken to address the baby formula shortage, including an FDA and Abbott agreement to reopen the shuttered plant and the FDA’s move to make it easier to import formulas: Click here to watch Kaine's video statement A transcript of Senator Kaine’s remarks is below: “I know people are real...Continue Reading

The Century Foundation: “At a time when parents feel more alone than ever, this new proposal makes clear that there are parents, and grandparents, in Congress who have their backs.” First Five Years Fund: “Sen. Murray and Sen. Kaine [are] taking definitive action to ensure child care is included in the budget reconciliation package, and we call on all Senate Democrats to unite behind this crucial, commonsense economic policy proposal.” Community Change Action: “Sena...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine, a member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined HELP Chair Patty Murray and Senator Bob Casey, as well as 28 of their Democratic colleagues, in sending a letter to Mardi Mountford, President of the Infant Nutrition Council of America, calling on infant formula manufacturers to make every effort possible to get parents and families the formula they need to feed their kids. Over the past sev...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) introduced the North Korean Human Rights Reauthorization Act of 2022. The bill would reauthorize the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 for five years past its expiration in September 2022. U.S. Representative Young Kim (R-CA) introduced the House version of this legislation earlier this year. “As Pyongyang continues to disregard the dignity of its citizens and demonstrates no tolerance for human rights, I...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine announced $114,700,190 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to increase affordable housing across the Commonwealth. “All Virginians deserve access to safe and affordable housing, but rents and home prices have skyrocketed across Virginia in recent years,” said the Senators. “We’re glad that this funding will go to supporting the construction of new affo...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) announced $2,900,000 in federal funding from Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration for the Culpeper Regional Airport. This funding – made available thanks to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act negotiated by Warner and strongly supported by Kaine last year – and will go towards the final phase of a project that will remove a road obstruction on the runway. “This in...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tim Kaine and Michael Bennet as well as a group of their colleagues requested increased funding for the Department of Justice’s Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Hiring Program in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 appropriations bill. The COPS Program provides funding directly to law enforcement agencies across the country to hire additional police officers to strengthen community policing and crime prevention efforts, which includes expanding ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, alongside 23 of his colleagues, requested that congressional leadership include the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act of 2021, which would allow state-legal cannabis businesses to access banking services, in the final version of the competitiveness legislation being negotiated between the House and Senate. Under current law, state-legal medical cannabis businesses in Virginia are forced to operate in all cash, which puts th...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Edward J. Markey, Tammy Duckworth, and Tim Kaine today urged public health officials at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to better prioritize the needs of populations at highest risk of severe illness from COVID-19 – including seniors, people with disabilities, and the immunocompromised – in their ongoing response to t...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine released the following statement after their bipartisan bill to commemorate historic sites that catalyzed litigation leading to the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, was signed into law by President Biden: “We’re excited our legislation to commemorate the Moton Museum in Farmville and other historic sites associated with the Brown v. Board of Education decis...Continue Reading