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The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded a $12 million grant to strengthen and re-deck two structurally-deficient bridges on I-64 in Rockbridge County. Both bridges are over the Maury River. U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine announced the grant Wednesday. U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx is expected to announce a “major” transportation announcement Thursday in Richmond. More than 9,000 vehicles a day travel across the bridges on I-64 East and West. The bridge...Continue Reading

Sen. Tim Kaine broke free of the Syria debate last Friday to hear out state fisheries officials on how Washington can help continue the success of its oyster industry. Kaine was taken aboard the J.B. Baylor where he viewed public and private oyster grounds. Virginia’s state officials would like watermen to have access, on a rotational basis, to oyster sanctuaries. Jim Wesson, who heads the state’s oyster conservation and replenishment said sanctuaries, while important to the industry...Continue Reading

Secretary of State John Kerry met with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, asking them to support President Obama's plan to use military force against Syria. On that committee, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine. "The use of chemical weapons violates American law and International law and it's gotta have a consequence,” said Kaine. Senator Kaine said if the United States doesn't act, the use of chemical weapons in Syria will continue. "It will happen again by Assad but it could encourage other...Continue Reading

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) on Tuesday said expected revisions to President Obama’s resolution authorizing military strikes on Syria should include a strict requirement that the administration return to Capitol Hill if the mission expands to include deploying ground troops against President Bashar Assad’s regime.   Speaking on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Kaine said Congress should specify that Obama seek “additional authority before there are boots on ground,&rdquo...Continue Reading

One day before a tragic accident involving an Amtrak passenger train claimed the life of a 19-year-old Culpeper teen, Amtrak and town officials sang the praises of the company’s involvement with the town. "They have done a terrific job here, it's a beautiful facility," said  Joe McHugh, Vice President of Goverment Affairs and Corporate Communications for Amtrak. McHugh was meeting with Sen. Tim Kaine and town officials Wednesday, talking about how the federal government can help Amtra...Continue Reading

During recess from Congress, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, likes to tour communities and hear his constituents' concerns. On Wednesday, the first-term senator and former govenor visited Culpeper and sat down with a conglomerate of Culpeper's leaders — Mayor Chip Coleman, Culpeper County Administrator Frank Bossio, Culpeper County Board of Supervisor Chairperson Sue Hansoh, Culpeper Regional Hospital CEO Lee Kirk and others — to discuss issues that not only affect the nation but ones th...Continue Reading

A car accident in 2000 took Joe Moore’s left leg below the knee, but it wasn’t about to keep him off the water. Moore had been an avid paddler since 1990, and he quickly figured out ways to adapt to the new set of challenges he faced in a kayak and canoe. Now, Moore is part of a team effort based in Virginia whose goal is to make people like him, people with physical challenges — amputations, spinal cord injuries, etc. — aware their limitations don’t have to keep th...Continue Reading

Sen. Timothy Kaine, D-Va., interacted with Sailors, scientists, and five commanding officers during his tour of Naval Support Facility (NSF) Dahlgren Aug. 27. The senator -- a member of the Senate Armed Services, Foreign Relations and Budget committees --- saw first-hand how Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) scientists and engineers sustain today's Navy and are developing weapons and systems for the future Navy. "It's great to be back at Dahlgren," said Kaine. "NSF Dahlgren...Continue Reading

Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine got a first-hand look at Naval Support Facility Dahlgren during an Aug. 27 visit to the installation, where he met with Navy leaders and toured the Aegis Training and Readiness Center, the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division and the Joint Warfare Analysis Center. At the University of Mary Washington Dahlgren Campus, Kaine voiced support for the Dahlgren Heritage Museum and discussed the state of the military budget and recent events in Syria. Kaine last came to...Continue Reading

Sen. Tim Kaine hadn't visited the State Theatre since before it's opening, having stopped in more than a year ago during a hard-hat tour. Now, the newly-renovated theater has been operating for four months and has quickly become the economic engine that the State Theatre Foundation hoped it would become. "It's very impressive," Kaine said as he toured the 560-seat venue Wednesday morning. Kaine was extremely interested in the history of the theater, especially since it is one of the few still re...Continue Reading

Newly elected U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine talked cyber-security and privacy during his Wednesday visit to the Centreville offices of the Camber Corporation, a major Department of Defense contractor and intelligence support firm. Much of the conversation focused on Edward Snowden, a former government contractor accused of revealing United States and British security secrets to journalists. Like Snowden, many Camber employees have security clearances, something they hold "quite dear," one Camber employee ...Continue Reading

Sen. Tim Kaine says Congress must get serious about budget issues when it returns from its August recess.  “We can’t afford to let budgetary stupidity keep us from being proactive about some of these challenges,” Kaine said Tuesday. He was touring the naval base at Dahlgren, visiting the University of Mary Washington’s Dahlgren campus and talking to the Fredericksburg Chamber of Commerce’s Military Affairs council dinner. Kaine said that the situation in Syria,...Continue Reading

United States Sen. Tim Kaine began his congressional career by getting lost. One day after Vice President Joe Biden swore him in Jan. 3, Kaine became disoriented while trying to find his temporary office in the basement of the 750,000-square-foot Dirksen Senate Office Building. "I came in a different door and the halls weren't where I thought they were," he recalled with a smile. It took a Wyoming Republican, Sen. John Barrasso, to steer the wandering freshman from the Old Dominion. Day two: sam...Continue Reading

U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, D-VA, donned a hardhat Friday morning for a glimpse of the latest in wireless, engineering and nuclear technologies tucked into a world-class facility in northeastern Bedford County. Kaine toured the Center for Advanced Engineering and Research (CAER), a facility leading research and development activities for the power generation industry. Developed within Virginia’s Regional 2000 partnership, a network of organizations charged with providing regional economic deve...Continue Reading

The talk was technology and workforce training Friday afternoon. U. S. Sen. Tim Kaine stopped by for a brief tour of the Southern Virginia Higher Education Center on Friday afternoon after he had visited Bedford County and Danville. During his visit to the SVHEC that offers educational services and workforce training to local Virginians, Kaine spoke with employees about the center’s efforts to help individuals, particularly those living in rural areas, develop advanced technical skills and...Continue Reading

Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine said Friday the effort to get a permit for grading at the Commonwealth Crossing Business Centre in Henry County is crucial to Southside Virginia, and proposed legislation by the region’s federal officials is meant to expedite the process. Kaine spoke about the dilemma during an open house at his regional office, saying the permitting process is stalling an opportunity for economic development the area needs. “The global economy creates challenges,” he sa...Continue Reading

Sen. Timothy M. Kaine said he gathered ideas in New London Friday to shape the nation’s budget and continue funding for Lynchburg-area research on nuclear power for aircraft carriers, submarines and civilian energy plants. Kaine said he picked up confirmation during a tour of the Center for Advanced Engineering and Research that federal budget cuts — known as sequester — are affecting the nation’s core war-fighting abilities. Bob Bailey, the center’s director, told ...Continue Reading

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine’s message was job creation and the economy at his open house Friday, held at his Danville office. Surrounded by local residents, business owners and local elected officials from both sides of the political fence, Kaine explained his plan to help grow jobs across Southside — a goal he said can be reached by creating more opportunities for foreign businesses to relocate to the area. “There are a lot of companies like that their parent companies might be in oth...Continue Reading

Virginia U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine often takes his breaks from duties in Washington, D.C. to focus on the strong military connections Virginia has. On Thursday, Virginia's new senator -- a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee -- came to Fishburne Military School in Waynesboro to see how that storied institution is training the citizen soldiers of the future. After a nearly two-hour visit, Kaine, D-Va., came away impressed with what Fishburne offers its cadets. He described what he saw Thursda...Continue Reading

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine has been in politics since the mid-1990s. But as he told hundreds of Harrisonburg teachers Thursday, there’s a role he’s held twice as long that’s just as important — a public school parent.  “First, as a public official, thank you, you do very important work. That’s all I’m going to say as a public official,” the veteran Democratic politician told the teachers, who were gathered for Harrisonburg City Public Schools’ ...Continue Reading