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Accomack County Supervisors are considering drafting a letter to federal legislators to 'make every attempt necessary" to restore lifeguard services at Assateague Island National Seashore, as beachgoers raise safety concerns heading into the peak of summer. With local officials now looking for federal government assistance, WBOC spoke with U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) about what can be done to restore funding for seasonal lifeguards. “We’re writing the FY26 budget, and [we're] in the ...Continue Reading

Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.)  toured the new barracks at Naval Weapons Station Yorktown on Monday and told 13News Now the issue surrounding housing for all military members remains a top concern. "These guys have missions that are tough enough; housing should not be an additional stressor, it should relieve stress," Kaine said. Kaine, who is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, made the trip as he plans fiscal priorities ahead of writing the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA...Continue Reading

Virginia’s Democratic U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, D-Va., are slamming the Republican spending plan moving through Congress, warning that tucked among its billion-dollar tax cuts for the wealthy is a dangerous gift to the gun industry that rolls back long-standing safety rules for firearm silencers. In a blistering joint statement Thursday, the senators said the proposal would weaken gun laws that have been in place since 1934 by eliminating registration and ownership requirements...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON - Senators Tim Kaine, Chris Van Hollen and Chuck Schumer are filing a resolution to require the State Department to issue a human rights report on El Salvador.  What we know: Kaine, Van Hollen and Schumer announced Thursday that they are filing a resolution under Section 502 B.C. of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.  "This is a little-used privilege motion. But it's designed, like the other privileges are designed, to enable the Article I branch to check executive overreach," said ...Continue Reading

When Sen. Tim Kaine launched a new strategy to hold President Donald Trump and Republicans accountable for this administration’s power-grabbing moves, Democratic leadership was resistant. But now they’re embracing it. In the aftermath of Trump’s win, with Republicans also controlling both the House and Senate, Kaine asked his staff to find everything in statute and Senate procedure that would allow a single senator to force a floor vote. When the new Congress began, and Kaine saw what he conside...Continue Reading

On Thursday, Senator Chris Van Hollen joined with Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) at a press conference on the Capitol grounds to discuss their legislation requiring the Trump Administration to detail their steps to comply with current court orders regarding the return of citizens wrongfully deported to El Salvador. In particular, the Senator addressed the fate of Kilmar Abrego Garcia who was abducted off the streets of Baltimore and sent to Centro Industrial prison in Santa Ana without due process. Th...Continue Reading

Tim Kaine no longer wears his Senate member lapel pin to work. Instead, the Democrat has been sporting one with Virginia’s seal, which he said serves as a daily, physical reminder to be “on guard against tyranny.” “It's a woman emphasizing virtue, standing atop a monarch who's been knocked over and his crown has fallen off. [It's] the only state that has a motto that, instead of being a positive celebration, is more of a warning or rebuke,” Kaine said. “The phrase is ‘Sic semper tyrannis’ or ‘Th...Continue Reading

Beginning in 2027, riders can travel by train from Washington D.C. to Christiansburg on the same Amtrak route that currently ends in Roanoke. State and local leaders celebrated the groundbreaking of the station Thursday. Governor Glenn Youngkin, Senator Tim Kaine and Congressman Morgan Griffith stood side by side to shovel dirt at the train station in Christiansburg. Youngkin recalled his first train trip at age 13 out of Richmond. “And my sister and I still talk about that trip,” Youngkin said....Continue Reading

U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, D-Va., spent the last few days meeting with residents across Southwest Virginia. At each stop during his four-day trip, a familiar topic of concern came up. “What I’m hearing are concerns about the economy, the markets are kind of going nuts and the tariff situation is really challenging,” Kaine said. “So I would say the number one issue that I’m hearing on this trip is the combination of the tariffs and the uncertainty.” Kaine said businesses are looking for stability an...Continue Reading

Virginia Senator Tim Kaine visited and toured the Daikin Applied Facility in Verona today, April 25th. While answering questions from reporters afterwards, Senator Kaine said any company that is involved in manufacturing has an element that can come from someplace else. He noted that a lot of Virginia companies sell product. “Here we are in the Shenandoah Valley. Our farmers in Virginia export a ton, chickens, soybeans, beef,” said Senator Kaine. “So, you get into a global tariff spat, anybody i...Continue Reading

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., traveled around Virginia during the congressional recess, including a stop in Verona at Daikin Applied. Kaine said Daikin focuses on energy efficiency. One reason for the visit was to talk about some of the incentives that are in place in the tax code to make sure they continue. “How can we heat and cool in a way where people can bring their cost down?” Kaine said. Many topics were covered during Kaine’s visits around the commonwealth, including health concerns, like possi...Continue Reading

During a recent trip to Ukraine, Poland and Germany to “highlight his support for America’s transatlantic partnerships and Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s brutal invasion,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) took time to visit Holocaust memorial sites in each country. During his trip, which fell over the Passover holiday, the senator visited Babyn Yar in Kiev, the POLIN Museum in Warsaw and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin.  “It was a very powerful experience,” a spokesperson for Kaine...Continue Reading

U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, D-Va., says he is worried that President Donald Trump may try to weaken recently enacted silica standards that are designed to protect American coal miners. Kaine, who met last week with the Daily Telegraph, said he was alarmed by the recent decision by the Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration to pause enforcement of its final rule to better protect miners from health hazards associated with exposure to silica dust. Kaine said the new silica standar...Continue Reading

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine remains firmly opposed to Pete Hegseth’s leadership and expects additional hearings on the defense secretary’s latest Signal scandal. Kaine and fellow Virginia Democrat U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, have both called for Hegseth’s resignation after the defense secretary revealed sensitive military information with unvetted civilians via private group chat not once but twice since his appointment. “I see one gaffe after the next,” Kaine told The News Virginian Friday after a tour of t...Continue Reading

Earlier this month, a bipartisan majority in the Senate passed my legislation to roll back the senseless tariffs President Donald Trump announced on Canadian imports on Feb. 20 — evidence that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are concerned by Trump’s tariffs. Americans across the country agree. They know that tariffs are akin to a national sales tax, raising prices on all kinds of everyday goods, including groceries, clothing and medicine. All told, these new taxes could cost the average U.S...Continue Reading

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine met with Roanoke-area Ukrainians and their supporters last week to share what he’d learned on a visit to the war-torn country and other European nations last month. Kaine visited Finland in February, and Poland, Ukraine and Germany during the Senate’s Easter recess. During his mid-April visit to Ukraine, he placed flowers at the Bucha Memorial, which remembers the more than 400 civilians and prisoners of war executed in 2022 by members of the 234th Air Assault Regiment, a Rus...Continue Reading

U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, D-Va., is vowing to fight against proposed cuts to Medicaid and the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which the Virginia lawmaker says will hurt low-income families across the Commonwealth and elsewhere. Kaine, who spoke with Virginia reporters during his weekly media call, said millions of Americans could lose their health insurance under the budget reconciliation package being drafted by House Republicans. Furthermore, Kaine argued that food assistance ...Continue Reading

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., is backing bipartisan legislation aimed at helping workers as young as 18 — particularly those who enter the workforce straight out of high school — gain access to employer-sponsored retirement plans, a benefit many currently don’t receive until age 21. On Monday, Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, teamed up with HELP Committee Chair Bill Cassidy, R-La., to reintroduce the Helping Young Americans Sa...Continue Reading

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine and other dignitaries broke ground Thursday on the long-awaited New River Valley Rail Project in Christiansburg, which will return passenger service to the New River Valley for the first time since 1979. The $264.5 million project involves railroad infrastructure upgrades that will allow the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority to extend its Amtrak Virginia service from Roanoke to Christiansburg. It includes a new station platform with canopy, a par...Continue Reading

Sen. Tim Kaine dropped by Danville on Tuesday and met with local manufacturers to talk about the economy and tariffs. Kaine’s visit at the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research was part of the Democratic senator’s stops at several localities this week in Virginia, including Wytheville, Richlands, Christiansburg and Verona. The meeting in Danville was closed to the press, with Kaine taking questions from reporters in the Institute’s lobby following the event. Kaine said he was using the Se...Continue Reading