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“It’s time to get this out of secrecy and put it in the light,” the Virginia Democrat said after forcing a Thursday Senate vote on a resolution that would limit Trump’s ability to strike Venezuela militarily again. Kaine said a resolution on Greenland would soon be filed, in addition to Cuba, Mexico, Colombia and Nigeria. Republican leaders have said they had no advance notification of the raid early morning Saturday to seize Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, but they’ve backed Trump, and mostl...Continue Reading

A proposal to expand the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to fund digital-skills training, close the workforce skills gap and better prepare Virginians and citizens nationwide for modern jobs is being reintroduced in Congress by one of Virginia’s federal lawmakers. U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., is leading the bipartisan proposal with support from U.S. Reps. Eugene Vindman, D-Woodbridge, and Republican David Valadao of California. Kaine told the Mercury Tuesday that the Digital Skil...Continue Reading