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El Senador por Virginia, Tim Kaine se reunió esta mañana con una familia inmigrante de origen Boliviano para hablar de las ventajas de la aprobación de la Acción Ejecutiva en la Corte Suprema.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), who was instrumental in getting a bipartisan bill through Congress in 2014 to reauthorize and expand the American Battlefield Protection Program, on Friday visited one of the battlefields that has benefited from his efforts. Kaine met with officials from the National Park Service and Civil War Trust at the Fredericksburg battlefield and was shown the 25-acre site that will be purchased using a recently received matching grant of $1.2 million from the ABPP. Later in t...Continue Reading

Sen. Tim Kaine did more than visit Shenandoah National Park on Monday. The Democratic Virginia senator hiked to the summit of Stony Man Trail during the morning, spending more than a hour climbing up and walking down on a windy and cool day. While Kaine's visit was partly pleasure, he had a serious purpose on Monday. An admirer of national parks since his youth in Missouri, Kaine is hopeful he can persuade Senate colleagues on the Budget Committee to appropriate additional funds for backlogged ...Continue Reading

A U.S. Senate bill that provides money to help save lives in prescription drug overdoses was passed by committee Thursday. The Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee passed the bipartisan co-prescribing Saves Lives Act, introduced by U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.). If passed, the act would encourage physicians to co-prescribe the life-saving drug Naloxone alongside opioid prescriptions and make Naloxone more widely available in federal health s...Continue Reading

Four engineering students from Warren County schools had the opportunity to present their projects to U.S. senators on Capitol Hill at a forum earlier this month. Career and Technical Education Coordinator Jane Baker and Blue Ridge Technical Center teacher Tom Breed accompanied seniors Zachary Atkins, Zachary Chambers, Hunter Layman, and Karl Taubenberger to the Russell Senate Office Building on March 1. There, the students presented inventive solutions they’d engineered for everyday probl...Continue Reading

In recent years we’ve commemorated the English and Spanish heritage of our nation’s founding. In 2007 we marked the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, Va., by English colonists. In 2015 we celebrated the 450th anniversary of the founding of St. Augustine, Fla. Both the English and Spanish commemorations included activities sponsored by federal commissions, which were voted on and passed by Congress. August of 2019 will mark 400 years since the first documented arri...Continue Reading

A federal bill aiming to prevent overdose deaths is now heading to the Senate floor. The bill, sponsored by United States Senator Tim Kaine (D) of Virginia, would make a life-saving drug more widely available. Kaine said this bill would help get Naloxone, a safe and effective antidote to opioids, into the homes of people at-risk of overdose. This bill called the “Co-Prescribing Saves Lives Act” encourages physicians to co-prescribe Naloxone alongside opioid prescriptions. It also mak...Continue Reading

In a rare showing of bipartisanship, the U.S. Senate passed the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act last week by an overwhelming margin of 94-1. The critically important measure now moves to the U.S. House of Representatives where it demands immediate attention and passage in the Republican-controlled chamber. The proposed measure designates more than $300 million over five years in federal grants to state and local programs aimed at strengthening treatment for addicts while expanding preve...Continue Reading

Sen. Timothy M. Kaine, D-Va., has gathered bipartisan support for a funding measure to recalibrate how high schools educate children to meet the career and technical education demands of a 21st-century workforce. Along with fellow Sens. Rob Portman, R-Ohio; Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis.; and Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., Kaine today will introduce the CTE Excellence and Equity Act, which would provide $500 million in federal funding to schools in the form of competitive grants to encourage integration ...Continue Reading

Publishers and leaders from the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), a trade group of more than 200 Black-owned media companies, and from the 400-plus member National Association of Hispanic Publications (NAHP) recently held a historic three-day summit in Washington, D.C. that featured an all-star roster of speakers, meetings on Capitol Hill, and the enshrinement of the late Gerri Warren into The Gallery of Distinguished Black Publishers. “I think we had a very productive week...Continue Reading

African–Americans have been slaves or second-class citizens for most of their nearly 400-year history in this country, U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine said Sunday during a Black History Month event in Spotsylvania County. It was only during the 1960s that the Civil Rights Act required equality, the Virginia Democrat continued. “But that guarantee of legal equality, awful late in the 400-year history, hasn’t translated into equality in the social sphere, hasn’t translated into equali...Continue Reading

If there were any doubt, Senator Harry Reid clearly has one last, good fight in him. Instead of cruising to retirement after securing a two-year budget deal last fall and essentially bequeathing his leader’s suite to Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, Mr. Reid, Democrat of Nevada, is waging war with Republicans over the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Though the battle is decidedly uphill, it is one that suppor...Continue Reading

 It wasn’t until a 2013 stop in Southwest Virginia that U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., realized the full magnitude of the prescription-drug abuse epidemic. Kaine, also a former governor of Virginia, was prepared to talk about economic development as part of a round-table forum in Tazewell County. A few hours later he met with members of the Daily Telegraph’s editorial board. Kaine was surprised when both sessions ultimately turned into a prolonged discussion about the growing drug-...Continue Reading

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