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Left on a Chesterfield County street wrapped in a blanket, 20-year-old Taylor Garris was alone and dying when the paramedics arrived. That is not the scenario lawmakers envisioned for overdose victims when they passed a “Good Samaritan” law last year aimed at slowing the rising tide of heroin and painkiller deaths by encouraging people to call 911 and stay until help arrives. A compromise struck before the bill became law — which requires callers to participate in a criminal i...Continue Reading

Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) made his first ever visit to Chatham Manor on March 11, 2016, as part of a visit to Fredericksburg celebrating the reauthorization of the American Battlefield Protection Program Amendments Act. The program provided a $1.2 million grant to help the Civil War Trust purchase land at the Benchmark Road site in Fredericksburg, where a local builder had planned a townhouse development. The land adjoins Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, where Union Maj. Ge...Continue Reading

Alarmed by a report that high levels of contaminants were found in wells near Fentress Naval Auxiliary Landing Field, Virginia’s two senators asked the Navy on Friday to quickly address the problem. Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner wrote in a letter to Navy Secretary Ray Mabus that they would like a briefing on the contamination problem, including recent lab reports and health assessments of service members and residents near the facility. The Navy said Thursday it found high levels of...Continue Reading

Sen. Tim Kaine’s been brooding about the toxic talk about immigrants that’s erupted in this year’s presidential campaign, and this week took time to share his worries and hopes with the National Association of Hispanic Publishers & National Newspaper Publishers Association’s legislative conference. He told them about meetings in January with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Turkish President Erdogan in Turkey. “They both say to me, ‘what’s going ...Continue Reading

U.S. Sens. Mark Warner (D) and Tim Kaine (D) are hailing the March 9 passage of the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA), a heroin and opioid addiction-combating measure approved by the Republican-led chamber 94-1.CARA, should it make its way to law, would authorize more than $300 million over five years in federal grants to state and local programs aimed at bolstering treatment for addicts. The bill also intends to strengthen prescription drug monitoring programs and increases access...Continue Reading

Hampton Roads will receive nearly $6.5 million to help end homelessness, U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine announced Tuesday. Over $23 million will be awarded in Virginia though the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Continuum of Care Program.“I’m very pleased Virginia will receive this funding to combat homelessness in the Commonwealth,” Sen. Warner said. “This funding will help individuals and families return to self-sufficiency and strengthe...Continue Reading

 The City of Virginia Beach has won a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to aid in protecting homes, businesses and military bases from rising sea levels. The $844,000 grant comes as part of NOAA's Regional Coastal Resilience Grant Program and will help Virginia Beach continue citywide analysis of sea level rise and how to adapt to it. Studies began in 2014 and will be completed in 2018. Virginia Beach will share the results with neighboring cities and work with ...Continue Reading

l senador demócrata Tim Kaine, de Virginia, señaló que “el pensamiento de los militantes de mi partido es que Hillary Clinton va a ser nuestra candidata a la presidencia en noviembre”, después de las rotundas victorias que obtuvo en siete de 11 estados durante el llamado Súper Martes por las primarias, el 1 de marzo. Además, Kaine avizoró que “en pocas semanas o pocos meses”, el Partido Demócrata saldrá m&aac...Continue Reading

On Monday, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine spoke in front of professor Ranjit Singh’s Intro to Political Science class. Tim Kaine brought up topics ranging from his personal ambitions to foreign policy. To political science and international affairs professor Singh, the talk by Senator Tim Kaine gives his students insights about how he lives a regular life and sees how his political ideologies formed. The course gives students an introduction to political culture and id...Continue Reading

Congratulations are in order for the 170 students who recently graduated from the Apprentice School at Newport News Shipbuilding. A special shout-out goes to Eric Bevis, winner of the Homer L. Ferguson Award, which goes to the graduate with the highest grade point average in combined required academics and crafts. After spending 11 years in the Navy, Bevis began working at the shipyard as an electrician. He entered the Apprentice School after four years and completed an advanced program in ...Continue Reading

La reforma migratoria integral será una prioridad en la agenda del partido Demócrata si obtiene una victoria abrumadora en la elección presidencial de noviembre y logra la mayoría en el Senado con gran apoyo del voto latino, ofreció el miércoles un influyente senador de ese partido. Los demócratas en las elecciones del 2008 ganaron la Casa Blanca y la mayoría en ambas cámaras legislativas con amplio apoyo latino, pero sus prioridades legislativas fueron las reformas financieras y de salud. "Si g...Continue Reading

President Barack Obama is in the last year of his second term, Republican senators argue, so he should no longer have a say in something so important as who sits on the Supreme Court. Let’s wait for the voters to weigh in this fall, they say. But Obama isn’t the only elected official in the last year of his term who has a key role in choosing the next justice, whose party may or may not hold onto his power post, and who generally makes consequential decisions. The GOP logic seems to ...Continue Reading

The Pamunkey Indian tribe has already started to receive long-awaited federal benefits, less than three weeks after being granted official federal recognition. The tribe received $50,282 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Native American Programs' Indian Housing Block Grant to help build affordable housing on its land, according to a Feb. 16 announcement from U.S. sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine and U.S. Rep. Rob Wittman. The money comes from a funding program the tribe ...Continue Reading

Late in 2015, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that the military would change policies and move to allow women to enlist in all combat roles. That decision has faced mixed reaction on Capitol Hill, but one senator from Virginia believes it's the right move. Senator Tim Kaine says the military should reflect the changing of the times. He says daughters are raised differently now than they were 30 years ago, and as women have broken through glass ceilings in everyday society, he wants t...Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two Prince George High School graduates were able to take part in a roundtable discussion Jan. 28 and give their views to state senators on college debt. Danielle Hannuksela and Reeve Ashcraft were two of many students from 20 Virginia colleges traveled to Capitol Hill on Jan. 27 to discuss their challenges paying for college and the impact of rising student loan obligations during a roundtable conversation organized by U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine, both D-VA....Continue Reading

The Pamunkey Indian Tribe cleared its final hurdle to obtaining federal recognition late last week when a federal appeals board dismissed a challenge to the group’s status. The Pamunkey Indian Tribe has fought for more than a decade to receive federal recognition, and it appeared to do so in early 2015 before a California-based gaming watchdog filed a last-minute challenge with the Interior Board of Indian Appeals. In its challenge’s Stand Up for California! joined with MGM National ...Continue Reading

The senators’ amendment to an energy bill could wring a “yes” from a federal commission that has so far stuck to “no.” That’s the intent, anyway. Norman Bay, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, has dismissed repeatedly the need for FERC to conduct a comprehensive, overarching analysis of the cumulative environmental effects of large-scale interstate natural gas pipelines proposed to route through Virginia. U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., said W...Continue Reading

It was in the late spring of 1961 when 12-year-old Lance Newman participated in ninth-grade graduation ceremonies at Arlington’s Stratford Junior High School. And on Feb. 2 of this year, for the first time in nearly 55 years, he was back in the auditorium where that ceremony took place. Newman – along with Ronald Deskins, Michael Jones and Gloria Thompson – on Feb. 2, 1959, became the first black students to cross the color barrier and enroll in an all-white Northern Virginia p...Continue Reading

The senators’ amendment to an energy bill could wring a “yes” from a federal commission that has so far stuck to “no.” That’s the intent, anyway. Norman Bay, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, has dismissed repeatedly the need for FERC to conduct a comprehensive, overarching analysis of the cumulative environmental effects of large-scale interstate natural gas pipelines proposed to route through Virginia. U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., said W...Continue Reading

It was in the late spring of 1961 when 12-year-old Lance Newman participated in ninth-grade graduation ceremonies at Arlington’s Stratford Junior High School. And on Feb. 2 of this year, for the first time in nearly 55 years, he was back in the auditorium where that ceremony took place. Newman – along with Ronald Deskins, Michael Jones and Gloria Thompson – on Feb. 2, 1959, became the first black students to cross the color barrier and enroll in an all-white Northern Virginia p...Continue Reading