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A roundtable discussion Friday morning on the need to protect the availability and access to in-vitro fertilization was hosted by U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Virginia). He was joined at the Ballston event by IVF advocates, medical professionals, and parents who conceived their children using IVF. "Patients have a right to access IVF services or other reproductive technologies," Kaine said. "Providers have a right to provide those services and technologies." Kaine is co-sponsoring legislation with U.S...Continue Reading

Elizabeth Carr entered the world as a 5-pound, 12-ounce earthquake, making medical history and unleashing furious controversy in 1981 as the first American conceived in a lab. Born in Norfolk with a “Nova” documentary crewin the delivery room and armed guards in the hall, America’s first IVF baby is 42 today and no longer a novelty.About 2 percent of U.S. births and an estimated 12 million people worldwide are products of in vitro fertilization. But Carr still stands as potent symbol of that now...Continue Reading

On Thursday, Virginia Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine announced $1,900,000 in federal funding for three projects in Bland, Stuart, and Lee County. The funding, courtesy of the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), will go towards building a dental clinic in Bland, investing in downtown revitalization projects in Stuart, and improving water service to 38 homes in Lee County. “Communities across Virginia have tremendous momentum, ideas, and initiative for projects that will improve their towns...Continue Reading

On Wednesday, Senators Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) and Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) introduced a bipartisan resolution designating March 18, 2024, as Health Workforce Well-Being Day of Awareness. The date was chosen to coincide with the day that the senators’ bipartisan Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Act was signed into law by President Biden in 2022. “Our health care providers protect our health and well-being every day, often at the expense of their own. My Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider P...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON D.C. (WSET) — On Tuesday, Senator Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) cosponsored the Access to Family Building Act, legislation to protect Americans’ right to access in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and other assisted reproductive technology services. Sen. Kaine’s announcement comes after a ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court that has already led to restricted access to IVF. “The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has opened the floodgates for draconian restrictions on reproductive free...Continue Reading

Legislation to strengthen the federal program that preserves and protects historic battlefields is making its way through Congress with bipartisan support and a good chance of becoming law. Sens. Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat, teamed with Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Mississippi Republican, to introduce the American Battlefield Protection Program Enhancement Act in the Senate.  Virginia’s Sen. Mark Warner is a co-sponsor. The U.S. House of Representatives has already passed a similar bill. The bill woul...Continue Reading

U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine on Thursday announced $35 million in federal funding for expansion and improvements to Dulles International Airport. The funding was made possible by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), which both senators, who are both Democrats, helped pass to improve air travel, roads, bridges, rail, broadband and water infrastructure, according to a release from Warner's office. Specifically the funding will go towards building a 14-gate, 400,000 square foot termi...Continue Reading

A new bill aimed at preventing youth suicide is on the table in the Senate. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) co-introduced the Child Suicide Prevention and Lethal Means Safety Act with Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) to target the second leading cause of death for people between the ages of 10 and 24, according to a statement released by Kaine. “In recent years, we’ve seen alarming spikes in anxiety, depression, and other mental health challenges among the nation’s youth,” Kaine said. “We must do more to ex...Continue Reading

U.S. Senator Tim Kaine cosponsored a bill to improve public school infrastructure across the country. The bill, ‘Rebuild America’s Schools Act,’ would help ensure school facilities are safe, healthy, and sustainable and offer positive learning environments for all students. School infrastructure projects developed through the bill would also create over two million jobs across America. “Our students and educators deserve the safe, healthy, and up-to-date learning environments they need to succee...Continue Reading

Funding for a mental health care initiative to prevent suicide and reduce burnout, mental and behavioral conditions among health care professionals is set to expire at the end of the year. U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) and a group of bipartisan legislators introduced a bill to reauthorize the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act. The act has provided $100 million in funding for mental health care for providers across the country, including $5.6 million in federal funding for Virginia...Continue Reading

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., is demanding answers from the U.S. Postal Service over late delivery of hundreds of cancer screening results from military veterans to the Richmond Veterans Affairs Medical Center, which is part of the Central Virginia VA Health Care System. Kaine called on the Postal Service to explain why the results of 870 immunochemical screenings for colon cancer arrived late to the VA Medical Center, including an estimated 450 results for tests dating as far back as mid-summer t...Continue Reading

US Senator Tim Kaine (D) says he is trying to restore women’s right to make their own reproductive health care choices with a new bill. “It’s very important that we maintain Virginia’s status in that way, and certainly the election results in Virginia in November 2023 demonstrated that’s where the Virginia public is,” Sen. Kaine said Wednesday, January 24. The senator says the Reproductive Freedom for All Act would essentially restore Roe v. Wade as a statutory protection. “We don’t have the vot...Continue Reading

Amongst the flurry of lobbying days and legislative sessions brought on by the turn of the calendar year, a bill intended to strengthen the already successful American Battlefield Protection Program was introduced to the Senate Jan. 10 by Tim Kaine representing Virginia and Cindy Hyde-Smith representing Mississippi. Rather than creating a new program, the American Battlefield Protection Program Enhancement Act of 2024 updates the existing program to further execute its mission of preserving Amer...Continue Reading

Virginia Senator Tim Kaine spoke on the Senate floor commemorating National Religious Freedom Day amid a sharp rise in antisemitism, Islamophobia, and threats to other faith-based communities. In October, the FBI reported that antisemitic hate crimes rose 25 percent from 2021 to 2022 and that it accounted for over half of all reported religion-based hate crimes.Kaine says part of the solution to stopping hate crimes is to go back to first principles. "We have to guard, protect and celebrate, n...Continue Reading

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., co-sponsored the Disrupt Fentanyl Trafficking Act, a federal law passed in December requiring the Department of Defense to develop a strategy to “target, disrupt, or degrade threats to national security” caused by fentanyl trafficking in Mexico. But at a roundtable discussion at the Loudoun Government Center in Leesburg on Jan. 8, Kaine said that, while there is a need for enforcement and interdiction, there will always be supplies of fentanyl — a synthetic opioid up ...Continue Reading

Congress this week approved a measure aimed at preventing any U.S. president from unilaterally withdrawing the United States from NATO without congressional approval. Passage came amid long-standing concerns that Donald Trump may try to exit the alliance if he returns to office. The provision was included in the National Defense Authorization Act, an annual bill detailing defense policy, which was passed by the House on Thursday and is awaiting the signature of President Biden. Under the measu...Continue Reading

Seafood is not only an important part of our economy, it’s a historical part of who we are. “Virginia has been a community of watermen and waterwomen since long before there was a Virginia,” said Senator Tim Kaine on Monday. “We want to make sure we keep you around for a very long time,” he told the heads of seafood companies who joined him in Lottsburg at Cowart Seafood to celebrate the Save Our Seafood Act. The bill aims to alleviate the struggle the seafood industry has getting seasonal worke...Continue Reading

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- Hundreds of military promotions will finally be confirmed after Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville ended his one-man blockade. Tuberville's hold was because he was against an unrelated abortion policy. Sen. Tim Kaine pushed Tuberville for months to end his hold. Kaine said stopping promotions wouldn't just affect military readiness, but many Virginia families.A few weeks ago, Kaine debated Tuberville on the Senate floor. He made him stay late and object to each ...Continue Reading

On Wednesday, Senator Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) introduced the Support for Universities and Colleges to Champion the Educational Success of Survivors (SUCCESS) Act, to help support student survivors of sexual assault and other violence. Specifically, the legislation would help improve academic outcomes for student survivors and help ensure universities and colleges have the resources to support them. “Colleges and universities have an obligation to do everything they can to prevent sexual assault o...Continue Reading