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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

Fort Pickett in Southside Virginia will be the new home of a $416 million embassy security training facility, the Richmond Times-Dispatch has learned. The formal announcement of groundbreaking at the military base in Nottoway County is expected to come today. Virginia was chosen for the Foreign Affairs Security Training Center facility over competing sites in Georgia and West Virginia. Once completed in 2019, officials said the facility will train between 8,000 and 10,000 people a year, includ...Continue Reading

Common sense would certainly dictate that those individuals who have survived an opioid-related overdose should not be prescribed additional opioid medicines. So much for common sense. A recent study published in the Annuals of Internal Medicine found that more than 90 percent of the 3,000 chronic pain patients included in the study who had survived an opioid related overdose between 2000 and 2012 kept receiving opioid medicines from their doctors. Seriously? The results of the study, conducted ...Continue Reading

Continuing a push to make college affordability a congressional priority, Senate Democrats held a forum Wednesday on the social and economic impact of student debt. The Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee event drew education advocates and nearly two dozen lawmakers, some of whom invited college students from their states to share their experiences paying for school. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) hosted George Mason University senior Kalia Harris, who told lawmakers ab...Continue Reading

Fort Pickett in Southside Virginia will be the new home of a $416 million embassy security training facility, the Richmond Times-Dispatch has learned. The formal announcement of groundbreaking at the military base in Nottoway County is expected to come today. Virginia was chosen for the Foreign Affairs Security Training Center facility over competing sites in Georgia and West Virginia. Once completed in 2019, officials said the facility will train between 8,000 and 10,000 people a year, includ...Continue Reading

Continuing a push to make college affordability a congressional priority, Senate Democrats held a forum Wednesday on the social and economic impact of student debt. The Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee event drew education advocates and nearly two dozen lawmakers, some of whom invited college students from their states to share their experiences paying for school. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) hosted George Mason University senior Kalia Harris, who told lawmakers ab...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

More than 100 Americans are dying every day from opioid addiction.This stat was just one of a dozen eye-openers noted at a U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing in Loudoun County Monday. The hearing, which focused on opioid abuse among older adults, was spearheaded by U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.). Attorney General Mark Herring (D) attended as an expert witness, providing testimony about the crippling impact opioid abuse -- and by extension, heroin -- has had on families across Virgi...Continue Reading