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Two Senate Democrats, alarmed by a pair of military strikes on Venezuelan boats this month, have filed a joint resolution calling for the United States to stop engaging in hostilities that have not been specifically authorized by Congress. The measure, which was filed on Friday by Senators Adam Schiff of California and Tim Kaine of Virginia, both Democrats, follows military strikes on Sept. 2 and Sept. 15 that killed a total of 14 people. The White House has described the strikes as part of a ca...Continue Reading

Two U.S. senators are calling on Congress to reduce the number of daily flights at Reagan National Airport, citing new reporting by The Washington Post that detailed serious safety risks tied to the volume of traffic at the airport, including on the night of a fatal Jan. 29 collision between a regional jet and an Army Blackhawk helicopter. “While many risk factors must be reevaluated, Congress needs to start by rolling back the additional flight slots it forcibly crammed into last year’s FAA Rea...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON (September 16, 2025) — In solidarity with PSA Flight Attendants who have been working for over two years without a much-needed pay raise or quality-of-life improvements, Senator Tim Kaine led 14 senators in a letter to call on PSA Airlines CEO Dion Flannery to reach an agreement that acknowledges the vital contributions of these workers. The letter reads in part: “Under the Railway Labor Act, carriers and their employees are expected to make a reasonable effort to create and maintain ...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON — Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., is back again with an old tactic to challenge President Donald Trump on the president's emergency orders to impose tariffs on companies that import foreign goods and boost fossil fuel production at the expense of clean energy industries. Kaine planned to file a resolution Tuesday to renew his objection to tariffs that Trump has filed on products imported from Canada — including potash fertilizer critical to Virginia farmers. He plans to file another one Thursd...Continue Reading

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Virginia U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine and Virginia Rep. Don Beyer are among a group of bipartisan lawmakers that have introduced a bill that would strengthen the public-private partnerships that preserve, maintain, and manage national trails. The Appalachian Trail Centennial Act is inspired by the National Trails System Act of 1968, which has led to the establishment and expansion of thousands of National Recreation Trails—aims to create a cooperative management t...Continue Reading

WISE COUNTY, Va. (WCYB) — Virginia Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine announced $700,000 in federal funding to expand water infrastructure in Wise County. The money comes from the Appalachian Regional Commission supporting the Upper Guest River Sewer Extension Project. The funding will cover construction of 3,000 square feet of new municipal sewer lines, creating 24 new water service connections. The sewer lines will serve 120 community members within the Upper Guest River area. The goal is to i...Continue Reading

U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine condemned the Trump administration Monday for beginning the process to cut federal funding from Alexandria City Public Schools and four other Northern Virginia districts over their refusal to change transgender student policies. The senators released a joint statement Monday as the U.S. Department of Education began suspending federal aid to the districts after they rejected demands to rescind policies allowing transgender students to use facilities matching ...Continue Reading

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine dropped by Culpeper County last week for a discussion on agriculture with local farmers, including the long-stalled Farm Bill, which hasn’t been officially renewed by Congress since 2018. The roundtable on August 5 at Belair Dairy Farm covered everything from crop insurance to the decline of local dairy farming along with the impacts of tariffs, international trade, the price of land and the price of commodities not keeping up with inflation. The county’s longtime senior exte...Continue Reading

Alexandria’s congressional delegation joined a chorus of regional lawmakers Monday condemning President Donald Trump’s decision to federalize Washington D.C.’s police department and deploy National Guard troops, with U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine calling the move a “waste of taxpayer dollars” designed to distract from other issues. U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.), who represents Alexandria, joined eight other members of the National Capital Region delegation in a statement released hours after Trump’s announc...Continue Reading

After wrapping up a six-day swing through the state at a roundtable with kids at a Richmond YMCA day camp, Sen. Tim Kaine said Friday that his road trip brought unexpected bad news: yet another federally funded health insurance program that’s stinting Virginians. This one is Medicare Advantage, the managed care plans for older Americans. Kaine said it was distressing to learn of problems with Medicare Advantage in the wake of cuts to Medicaid, the coverage that mainly covers children in low-inco...Continue Reading

PENNINGTON GAP – Virginia U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine used a Southwest Virginia hospital Thursday to highlight concerns about the Trump administration’s impact on health care and food assistance in the region. Kaine spent day three of a four-day tour across the state to get public input on impacts from the administration’s “big beautiful” budget reconciliation bill that passed Congress before the U.S. House’s July 4 recess. After touring Lee County Community Hospital with Ballad Health administrators an...Continue Reading

FRONT ROYAL -- U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., toured a frozen fruit producer in Warren County on Wednesday where he raised concerns about tariffs, food costs and SNAP cuts. Kaine stopped at Nature’s Touch Frozen Foods where he talked with company leadership about the products and the producer’s role in providing healthier food to consumers. Kaine also promoted the Supporting all Healthy Options when Purchasing Produce Act, or SHOPP, which seeks to amend the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Progra...Continue Reading

WINCHESTER — With federal funding cuts taking chunks of money away from many nonprofits’ annual operating budgets, U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) visited Winchester Wednesday morning to hear first-hand accounts of how this is affecting the community. “I really want to hear from you all so that we can prioritize our work [in Washington],” Kaine told 16 representatives from nonprofit agencies across the region at the outset of Wednesday’s gathering on the Our Health campus on North Cameron Street. Sp...Continue Reading

Senate Democrats are reviving a push to terminate President Donald Trump's energy emergency as they blame the White House for rising electricity prices. Democrats lost an effort earlier this year to pass a joint resolution against the president's emergency declaration, which allows the government to bypass environmental review to ramp energy production, a move they say favors fossil fuels over renewables. Now Democrats think might be able to get some Republicans on board. "The economic effects b...Continue Reading

A panel of mayors, city managers, and nonprofit leaders shed light on concerns surrounding the Trump administration's federal funding cuts at a roundtable hosted by Sen. Tim Kaine Monday. Leaders at the roundtable included representatives from Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Isle of Wight County, Franklin, Suffolk, and Portsmouth. Kaine's appearance in Chesapeake comes days after a federal jobs report that highlighted a slower-than-expected growth of 73,000 jobs for the month of July. Monday, city and ...Continue Reading

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) will force votes in the coming weeks meant to compel the Trump administration to answer questions about human rights conditions in six countries to which it deported migrants who are not citizens of those countries. Kaine filed the resolutions Thursday under the Foreign Assistance Act, a 1961 law that allows a single senator to force votes to require the State Department to produce reports on human rights, even though Republicans control the Senate. It’s the latest ef...Continue Reading

Federal immigration agents would be required to show their faces and be clearly identifiable when making arrests under a soon-to-be-introduced bill from Virginia Democratic Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine. Why it matters: The proposal, shared exclusively with Axios Richmond, is partly in response to recent incidents in Chesterfield and Charlottesville, where media outlets have reported masked ICE officers in plainclothes detaining people. Driving the news: Under the legislation, any law enforcem...Continue Reading

U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a Democrate of Virginia, delivered a speech on the Senate floor on July 16 denouncing cuts to federal funding of faith-based organizations that play critical roles in refugee resettlement and international humanitarian aid. The Rescissions Act of 2025, pushed by both President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans, proposes $9.4 billion in cuts to previously appropriated federal funding, $800 million of which supports faith-based organizations like Catholic Relief Se...Continue Reading

Virginia’s U.S. senators last month urged ICE to resume processing DACA applications following an appeals court decision. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine with other Democrats in the U.S. Senate in a letter urged U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to resume processing applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program following a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in June in Texas. Currently, more than 100,000 initial DACA applications are pending with USCIS, according to a...Continue Reading

Serving the community since 1997, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest Virginia supports families with after school care, academic support, and character development. Melanie Shanks said as a single parent, it’s crucial. “My little boy loves being here and meeting new kids and he’s gotten so much better in his grades because they have special tutoring,” said Shanks. But now, the Boys & Girls Clubs is concerned about losing federal funding. The Trump Administration has not given states the...Continue Reading